Full name: The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake

Author: G. E. Bentley Jr. Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Art, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780300100303 0300100302

This fascinating and generously illustrated biography of William Blake, the great English artist, poet, and mystic, encompasses virtually everything that is known of his life and times. Often invoking the words of Blake's own contemporaries, G. E. Bentley describes the struggles of Blake's youth, his gradual embrace of the power of the spirit and visionary art and literature, and the serenity he achieved in his old age. Similar books: Blake by Peter Ackroyd Philip Larkin by Andrew Motion Walt Whitman by Justin Kaplan Keats by Andrew Motion City Poet by Brad Gooch Rimbaud by Graham Robb Rimbaud by Edmund White Becoming Modern by Carolyn Burke Byron by Benita Eisler Anne Sexton by Diane Middlebrook Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford Philip Larkin by James Booth I Celebrate Myself by Bill Morgan Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie Robert Lowell by Ian Hamilton Journals by Kurt Cobain Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh Vivian Maier by Richard Cahan Letters Home by Sylvia Plath Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen